Strong underwater wave may have caused Indonesian sub to sink: Navy


People throwing flowers and petals with names of the sunken KRI Nanggala-402 submarine crew members from a boat in Bali on April 26, 2021. - Reuters

JAKARTA/BANYUWANGI (The Straits Times/ANN):): A strong underwater wave might have been what caused an Indonesian submarine to descend quickly and sink to a depth of 850m in the north of Bali last week, killing all 53 crew members on board.

Two senior naval officers said the movement of a strong internal wave in the spot where the submarine was reported missing was on the image report of Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 as well as a European one.

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